What I read today March 7

• West Virginia Raises Teachers’ Pay to End Statewide Strike, NY Times
• The Rediscovery of 5 ‘Extinct’ Types of Heritage Apple, Atlas Obscura
• The Real Reason the Investor Class Hates Pensions, NY Times
• A French graphic designer faces an uphill battle to prove Disney copied his work, Quartz
• Secret NYPD Files: Officers Can Lie And Brutally Beat People — And Still Keep Their Jobs, Buzzfeed news
• ‘Decolonizing’ Roller Derby? Team Indigenous Takes Up the Challenge, NY Times
• Her Tiny Apartment is New York’s Most Secret Jazz Club, Messy Nessy Chic
• About New York; Sweet Sounds Ease the Pain, Then and Now, NY Times
• Architects discuss the future of the NYPL’s soon-to-be-transformed Mid-Manhattan branch, Curbed
• ‘The Bachelor’ tries to do damage control after disastrous finale, but only makes things worse, Washington Post
• The Death and Life of a Great American Building, NY Review of Books
  Such a lovely ode to an old building